State Briefly

AUSTIN - State officials are investigating a West Texas juvenile lockup after a Texas Ranger found two-year-old undelivered mail at the facility.

Ranger Brian Burzinski went to the West Texas State School after the Texas Youth Commission got a tip on its abuse hot line about the undelivered mail.

Burzinski and a member of the local sheriff's office seized mail that had been delivered to the facility, addressed to inmates, but apparently never given to them, an agency official said. The mail appears to be dated from about September 2005 to December 2005.

"At this point I don't know how serious it is, but we're going to treat it as a serious event until it proves otherwise," agency spokesman Jim Hurley said.

Hurley said he expects the inquiry to become a criminal investigation.

Suspected theft ring from Puerto Rico nabbed

EULESS - Euless police say three people have been arrested in an investigation of a burglary ring that allegedly involved thieves flying in from Puerto Rico.

Investigators believe locks were picked at about 130 apartments in Dallas and Tarrant counties since last summer.

Euless police say about 40 apartments have been hit in the city between Dallas and Fort Worth.

Two men were caught Wednesday in Plano. A woman was nabbed in Irving.

Details weren't immediately released on what happened to the stolen property, after trips of several days at a time to Texas, then flights back to Puerto Rico.